To Travel and To Report

Andrew Solomon provides more to chew over in his new book that most other travel books do… [H]e brings together a lifetime of travels in Far and Away: Reporting From the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years. This is previously published work in journals, newspapers, and his own books, but many articles are presented in a longer form. Together, they don’t just provide profiles of diverse lands, they illuminate what it is to be human.